History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
On This Day: Bob Geldof, the Irish founder of Live Aid, is born in 1951
On This Day: Irish tenor Frank Patterson born in County Tipperary
On This Day: Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave dies in 2017
How Féile Na Marbh or 'Feast of the Dead' became Halloween
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